I was kinda excited to find a "The Warhammer Universe Strategy Game Collection" CDs in my cupboard, which have the following games:

- Shadow of the Horned Rat
- Dark Omen
- Chaos Gate
- Final Liberation

No idea when I have bought it.

Also at some point I was looking high and low for the first Heavy Gear game, but to my surprise I later found the game box in my cupboard, so my search kinda ended there. :) I remembered playing it before a long time ago, but up until finding the retail box I had presumed I had just been playing a demo version.

I tried to buy Alan Wake in the last Steam sale and was told I already owned it. That was pretty embarrassing.

first world problems...

I bought Dead Space off Steam during some sale, only to later realize that I'd bought it off Gamersgate during some previous sale. Also, like a lot of people here, I have games from bundles that I have no memory of.

I bought the 1C complete pack the day it came out on a deal for a measly 20 bucks. i don't check my Gamersgate account as often as I do my GOG or Steam ones, so whenever i look at the games I've got on that pack, I go "Did I get this one too? What's it about?"

It's gotten to the point where if I'm going to buy a game from a russian or european studio, I always check on my GG account to see if I already have it. It's hard to remember 80+ games when most of them I haven't heard or read about.

I got Arkham City with my graphics card a year back. It is still sitting comfortably in my backlog, maybe someday.

That said, I didn't really buy it, but I chuckle on occasion when I remember that I've not played it once.

LOL - no, not at all.

I live in a developing country, and just about all my gamer friends here are the same. Boatloads of games they'll never have time to play. They're so cheap now, both digital download and bootleg, almost anyone can afford to play a few games in a year.

I found a ZIP file on my hard drive with the name of bout_en two weeks ago .

Never happened to me, and my backlog is pretty huge...

Can't say this will last forever, though.

This has happened to me, but in that case I really hadn't bought the game. It (Morrowind) had come bundled with my new graphics card, and I only discovered it later when I was rummaging through the old boxes.

Honestly can't say that this has ever happened to me. I suspect that is mostly because when I pay to buy a game I generally end up playing it very soon after (I don't hold to waiting to finish one game before I play another).

So I've generally got a good hold on the direct games that I purchase.

The indy bundles and big bundle deals on Steam can sometimes throw me with me having games that I don't pay attention to; however most of the time if the title doesn't interest me I won't "know" that I own the game, but when I come across it in the game list its like "Oh that game I don't like.." and I move on without really worrying about it any further.



So the only time that I get the "WoW this is new!" kind of feeling is when someone gifts me a game.

That is a very reasonable stance, of course.

Part of why I have accrued such a ridiculous backlog, that I'll never, ever find the time to play through, is that I'm so susceptible to sales. Hey, when I buy a reduced game, I'm actually saving money! Argh.

Happens to me all the time. Moreso with the digital downloads getting their front seat position. I used to buy cheap games at retail stores (few dollar bins) and sometimes I thought "oh look, I don't have this one yet", but when I got home, there was like three copies of the same game, just different packaging (normal, sold out, xplosiv and so on...).

I tried that a couple of times, but I always end up forgetting to update it. At least I have one spreadsheet based list I keep updated, and that's the list of games I bought (at the bundle level, not necessarily individual games) and Kickstarters I pledged to. That made me notice that I've spent a lot more money this year than I intended, so I stopped buying games about two months ago. On the two months anniversary I bought the Winter Wolf bundle, and I also bought Broken Sword for Android today on the special $0.25 deal, but I think that's still reasonably under control, and I will try to keep from buying lot of games at least until the Steam end of year sale.